South Dakota Road Test Checklist 2026 (Free Printable)

Study sheet for before your test. Notes aren’t allowed in the DMV test room. Every state bans notes, phones and printouts during the knowledge test, in person and online.

Study sheet for before your test. Notes aren’t allowed in the DMV test room.
Source: South Dakota Department of Public Safety, Driver Licensing Program and South Dakota law, sources numbered below · Checked October 4, 2026 · Printed Oct 12, 2026 · drivingtestpal.com/south-dakota/study-sheets/road-test-checklist/

South Dakota · Road test

South Dakota road-test checklist

Driving test (on-the-road skill test)

Tick each box during practice drives in the weeks before your test. The numbers in brackets are the sources listed at the bottom.

How it’s scored: No scoring method, point scale or error limit is published. By statute the test must include an actual demonstration of your ability to exercise ordinary and reasonable control of a motor vehicle. [2, 3]

Bring to the test [1, 2]

Your instruction permit
Driver's ed certificate, if you have one
Two pieces of mail proving your residential address (yours or your parent's)
Parent or guardian in person, or a notarized Parental Consent Form
Your own safe vehicle
.00 fee (covers three attempts within six months)

Vehicle check before you go [2]

You furnish your own safe vehicle
No pets or passengers in the vehicle during the test
Children and pets are not permitted in the testing area

Skills checked throughout [2, 3, 4]

Ordinary and reasonable control of the vehicle
Following the examiner's instructions (in English)

Sources

sd.gov: sys attachment.do
sd.gov: sys attachment.do
sdlegislature.gov: 32 12 4
sdlegislature.gov: 32 12 126
sdlegislature.gov: 32 12 2